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BL
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951804
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b706174
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| Main Entry
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Tuan, Yi-fu,1930-
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| Title & Author
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Coming home to China /\ Yi-Fu Tuan.
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| Publication Statement
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Minneapolis :: University of Minnesota Press,, ©2007.
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| Page. NO
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1 online resource (xi, 178 pages)
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| ISBN
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081665431X
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: 9780816654314
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081664991X
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0816649928
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9780816649914
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9780816649921
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| Contents
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The long flight -- Beijing: first impressions -- A walk in the neighborhood and a gustatory shock -- The summer palace -- A speech to architects: a tour de force? -- A busy day with a satisfactory ending -- Another hotel and a campus tour -- Showing off in Chinese and English -- My student guides -- Lecture and tours in Beijing -- Goodbye Beijing, hello Chongqing -- Touring "authentic" Chongqing -- Revisiting my childhood: Nankai Middle School -- First day on the Yangtze River -- Second day on the Yangtze River -- Stopover in Yichang -- Shanghai: old memories and new experiences -- Last day: food poisoning and conversation -- To the airport and home -- Reflections.
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| Abstract
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In 2005, distinguished geographer Yi-Fu Tuan ventured to China to speak at an architectural conference, returning for the first time to the place he had left as a child sixty-four years before. In this enchanting volume, Tuans childhood memories and musings on the places he encountered during his homecoming are interspersed with new lectures, engaging principles of human geography and the changing Chinese landscape.
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Tuan, Yi-fu,1930-China-- Travel.
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Geographers-- United States, Biography.
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BIOGRAPHY AUTOBIOGRAPHY-- Historical.
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Geographers
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HISTORY.
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SCIENCE-- Earth Sciences-- Geography.
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Travel
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China, Description and travel.
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China
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United States
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| Dewey Classification
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951.06092B
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| LC Classification
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G69.T84A3 2007eb
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